Senior Operational Engineer Storage
Senior Operational Engineer Storage
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Job Description
Data Centre (YIOD)
The Vattenfall IT Data Centre department is accountable for Data Centres and Public Cloud services. Vattenfall IT has adopted a cloud first strategy. The Public Cloud Platform Services department is responsible for delivering Public Cloud services. For workloads that are not suitable for public cloud services Vattenfall IT provides countrybased Data Centres with traditional onpremise hosting platforms. Vattenfall IT is transitioning to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) platforms moving away from traditional hosting towards private cloud architectures and platform service delivery for workloads that require country or businessspecific regulatory compliance.
Private Cloud Platform Services (YIODW)
Vattenfall IT Data Centre has established a new department to manage Private Cloud Platform Services. This department is responsible for overseeing the services operations and ensuring the smooth functioning of the Private Cloud Platform. To streamline the operations further the department has been divided into three subdepartments each with a specific focus and responsibilities. The team primarily focuses on VMware Windows Linux server and Storage service operations for the BLUE IT onpremise environments.
YIODWS is an operations department responsible for BLUE VPC and traditional hosting service operations.
What will you do
As our new Operational Engineer (Storage) you will be responsible for managing the storage solutions in the Vattenfall datacenters. The Operational Engineer drives complex changes actively supports new implementations and cares for service improvement through problem management.
Furthermore the Operational Engineer has also responsibilities related to Servers Floor and Hardware Management virtual and cloud environment and interconnection with other systems (e.g. Network Data Bases etc). The Operational Engineer is responsible for the storage administration SW and HW maintenance disaster recovery protection and supports the deployment of new services works on operation concepts and with system and security.
Your tasks and responsibilities:
- Daily Maintenance of our Storage systems including participation in oncall and daily shifts.
- Managing operational incidents including 1st and 2nd level if needed.
- Planning coordinating and working on changes based on incidents or improvements in our environment.
- Collaborating with other departments to ensure that IT operations are aligned with organisational goals and objectives.
- Automating our storage operations.
- Acting as a point of contact person for all technical questions regarding the storage related services and their components.
- Coordinating and executing activities for service lifecycle management (planning migrations installation upgrade and decommission).
- Designing of infrastructure based on application specific requirements.
- Development and maintenance of technical documentation
- Leading small size infrastructure initiatives
- Participating in projects as a Storage specialist.
- Joining improvement initiatives in the Storage area together with the team.
- Collaborating with other departments to ensure that IT operations are aligned with organisational goals and objectives.
Location
Berlin Amsterdam or Stockholm
Qualifications :
Who are you
You are an experienced specialist looking to step into the role of a Senior Engineer in the Data Centre.
You have experience with NetApp storage solutions in a large and complex IT environment.
You are driven by technical and operational challenges and have a strong desire to enable your team to consistently improve and deliver efficient stable compliant and secure services.
You enjoy leading complex projects and you are able to plan your own work. You give advice for improvements that lead to a permanent solution of incidents or complex customer questions.
You work independently in an international team which meets more virtually than physically.
As our Senior Operational Engineer (Storage) you will bring:
- Bachelors degree in a related field (or equivalent work experience).
- Knowledge of IT service management frameworks such as ITIL .
- More than 7 years of Storage experience (NetApp).
- Very good knowledge of data centre related solutions and technologies (storage/FC switches/compute/networking/backup/security).
- Experience in managing and troubleshooting all the major storage protocols(NFS/CIFS/ISCSI/FC).
- Experience with Brocade SAN fabrics (zoning upgrades cleanup and troubleshooting).
- Experience with storage based DR and backup solutions.
- Good knowledge of operating systems (Windows/Linux) and VMware (ESXi Vcenter Datacenters Connectivity etc).
- Strong troubleshooting skills.
- Experience as project leader/ coordinator in complex businesscritical projects.
- Motivating energizing and driving team performance brings you satisfaction.
- You enjoy communicating and working closely with customers stakeholders and team members.
- You enjoy solving complex problems.
- Ability to manage multiple assignments projects and priorities in a fastpaced environment.
- Fluency in English both written and verbal. Knowledge of the local language in the chosen location (Germany The Netherlands Sweden) is a plus.
Next to this you bring:
- Experience with Ansible shell scripting and other scripting knowledge.
- Knowlege with vSAN solutions.
- Experience in working with international team members.
- Experience with working with DevOps is a plus.
- Certifications in or storage technologies VMware Cloud Foundation Linux Windows Server is a plus.
- Certifications in ITIL Project Management is a plus.
Additional Information :
Our offer
Good remuneration a challenging and international work environment and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field. You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues. We offer attractive employment conditions and opportunities for personal and professional development.
More Information
We welcome your application in English. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website.
For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Ewa Krajewska via
At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender ethnicity age transgender identity or expression religion or other belief disability or sexual orientation.
The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason a preemployment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. The screening will be performed by a third party Validata.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
